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RBA switches to 'decidedly hawkish' tone

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2026
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) switched to a "decisively hawkish" tone in the September Minutes, with a focus on the upside risks to inflation. The board unanimously voted in favour of a rate hike, bringing the official cash rate to 4.6%, after ...

Treasury consults shifting tax debts from victims to abusers

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2026
Treasury is consulting on extending the powers of the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) to strengthen its response to financial abuse. This would allow the taxation office to pause debt recovery against victim-survivors, pursue the debts from perpetrators ...

Former adviser defies permanent banning orders

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2026
Former financial adviser Ezzat Daniel Nesseim has defied ASIC's permanent banning orders and is in the process of being prosecuted. Nesseim was slapped with permanent banning orders by the regulator between 2018 and 2019 that barred him from providing ...

ETF assets hit $388bn as inflows near $7bn

VINNY VUCAGO  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2026
Australia's exchange-traded fund (ETF) industry attracted $6.9 billion in net inflows during September, taking total assets under management to a record $388 billion as investors continue to favour index-based strategies, international equities and ...

Flexible work fails to follow women into leadership

VINNY VUCAGO  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2026
While a greater number of women are advancing into management roles, inflexible leadership positions and unequal caring responsibilities are forcing more women to leave senior positions. The Gender Equality Insights 2026: Unlocking Australia's Workforce ...

LGT poaches Koda Capital's top-rated adviser

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2026
LGT Wealth Management has poached Koda Capital's 2025 top-rated adviser and partner Frank Macindoe. Macindoe will be joining LGT Wealth Management in the first week of November. He joined Koda Capital in early 2018 as a senior adviser and partner from ...

CareSuper rejigs beneficiary nominations, investment options

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2026
CareSuper has introduced several changes to its investment options and beneficiary nominations. On October 1, CareSuper amended the trust deed to change the circumstances in which a binding nomination may become invalid. Previously a binding nomination ...

L1 Group sells Platinum's responsible entity to Equity Trustees

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2026
L1 Group has offloaded Platinum Investment Management Limited (PIML) to Equity Trustees (EQT), handing over the responsible entity (RE) role for the Platinum funds while keeping investment management in-house. This is part of its cost reduction strategy ...

IFM looks offshore for renewable lending opportunities

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2026
Australia is losing out to the global market and increasingly to Asia when it comes to renewables lending from one of the country's biggest fund managers, with IFM Investors executive director and co-head of APAC diversified credit Hiran Wanigasekera ...

ASIC seeks 10-year extension of CFD protections

VINNY VUCAGO  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2026
ASIC is proposing to extend its product intervention order governing contracts for difference (CFDs) until 2037, while tightening protections to address risks posed by increasingly varied ways of settling the complex, leveraged products. The regulator ...